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Breguet 5907 Style Watches

I'm sure there are plenty of copycats of the Breguet 5907.  The 5907 is one of my dream watches and at times I'm torn between that or getting a Patek.  Seems the world views Patek Phillipe as the best and Breguet merely a high end brand, but not in the same league.  But being a preowned 5907 costs about $10,000...I'm not getting one anytime soon. The best I can settle for is a homage.  Not a replica or knockoff, but a homage.  The most decent I could find is the Rotary GS02424, which is probably closer in resemblance to a 5920 as it has a date complication, but close enough and for under $150, a reasonable deal.  It's the same watch that Benedict Cumberbatch wears in the Sherlock Holmes series and enough people have confused it with a Breguet to make me interested in owning one.  Not to pass it off as a Breguet, but to try it out and see if I even like that style of watch and consider would I be willing to shell out 10 grand for the real deal?  The hard part is find